* CrowdCulture – spannendes Konzept zur Kulturf√∂rderung aus Schweden: “If we were to create a city today – what would the financial system for cultural productions look like? In Sweden, they have asked the question and come up with the crowdsourcing model Crowdculture. Crowdculture is an online platform that allows people to create, select and fund cultural activities in Stockholm. To participate, people have to sign up and ‘invest’ 50 SEK (6 ‚ā¨) per month. Each individual investment is then leveraged by public funds.” Via

* FoodMatch, ein Projekt des Secret Cooks Club of Singapore, die u.a. Underground-Restaurants und andere Food-Events organisieren: “The single portions of food at the supermarket are a strange business entity. The skimpy, perfect packaging directly links with the little windows of the huge buildings of one-room flats that are filling up all the big cities. Through the project FoodMatch the group calls people to share their leftovers with other lonely metropolitan inhabitants. Thanks to this facebook app, you can share information and upload pictures that describe the ingredients in the fridge. It’s then possible to fix a place and a date for a real dinner. Anyone can join and add foods that will be used to make delicious recipes (obtained automatically through Google API) and eaten in the company of real diners. Besides being a delicious initiative against waste and overproduction of food (as the artists show in a video on their website the world produces almost 700 million tonnes of food.” Via